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Trivia: Musical Terms
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1. A drama where the words are sung instead of spoken.
Scherzo
Romantic
Opera
Ligature
2. A Boroque dance with a drone-bass.
Chromatic scale
Staccato
Stretto
Musette
3. Harsh - discordant - and lack of harmony. Also a chord that sounds incomplete until it resolves itself on a harmonious chord.
Soprano
Quintet
Classicism
Dissonance
4. A single line of music played or sung. A musical sentence.
Phrase
Tablature
Drone
Presto
5. A symbol in sheet music that returns a note to its original pitch after it has been augmented or diminished.
Flat
Natural
System
Tremolo
6. Refers to the tuning of an instrument.
Temperament
Homophony
Round
Slide
7. Often used in overtures - a composition that uses passages from other movements of the composition in its entirety.
Parody
Soprano
Medley
Relative pitch
8. A direction in sheet music indicating the tempo is to be very fast.
Carol
Presto
Trill
Trio
9. A lighthearted piece - written in several movements - usually as background music for a social function.
Serenade
Concert master
Obbligato
Key
10. Originally an improvised cadence by a soloist. Later it became a written out passage to display performance skills of an instrumentalist or performer.
Da Capo
Beat
Temperament
Cadenza
11. A musical composition written solely to improve technique. Often performed for artistic interest.
Chord
Treble
Interlude
Etude
12. A loose collection of instrumental compositions.
Requiem
Waltz
Chord progression
Suite
13. Word to indicate that the movement or entire composition is to be played grandly.
Tempo
Quadrille
Grandioso
Song cycle
14. A symbol indicating the note is to be raised by one semitone.
Serenade
Tempo
Sharp
Tone less
15. The keyboard of a stringed instrument.
Clavier
Accessible
Refrain
System
16. A musical form where the principal theme is repeated several times. The rondo was often used for the final movements of classical sonata form works.
Rondo
Choir
Clavier
Sequence
17. A portion of the range of the instrument or voice.
Register
Concerto
Pentatonic Scale
Triple time
18. The first tone of a scale also known as a keynote.
Time Signature
Staccato
Tonic
Clavier
19. To repeat a previous part of a composition generally after other music has been played.
Monotone
Suite
Forte
Reprise
20. Three notes played in the same amount of time as one or two beats.
Triplet
Piano
EnharmonicInterval
Polyphony
21. A repeated phrase.
System
Ostinato
Tonal
Major
22. Pertaining to the loudness or softness of a musical composition. Also the symbols in sheet music indicating volume.
Chamber music
Coda
Dynamics
Accelerando
23. One of the two modes of the tonal system. Music written in major keys have a positive affirming character.
Gavotte
Major
Parody
Grazioso
24. Sliding between two notes.
Portamento
Glissando
Opus
Trio
25. A composition written for three to six voices. Beginning with the exposition - each voice enters at different times - creating counterpoint with one another.
Fifth
Slur
Rococo
Fugue
26. A system of notation for stringed instruments. The notes are indicated by the finger positions.
Tablature
Clef
Motif
Waltz
27. A musical scale having five notes.For example: the five black keys of a keyboard make up a pentatonic scale.
Cavatina
Modulation
Tuning
Pentatonic Scale
28. Eight full tones above the key note where the scale begins and ends.
Concert master
Opus
Slur
Octave
29. A hymn sung by the choir and congregation often in unison.
Legato
Drone
Trio
Chorale
30. The performance of either all instruments of an orchestra or voices in a chorus.
Da Capo
Ensemble
Natural
Scherzo
31. In sheet music - an instruction to repeat the beginning of the piece before stopping on the final chord.
Verismo
Da Capo
EnharmonicInterval
Theme
32. A quick 20th century dance written in double time.
Rigaudon
Canon
Concerto
Temperament
33. Vocal composition written for three or more solo parts - usually without instrumental accompaniment.
Rubato
Cadence
Glee
Forte
34. Male singers who were castrated to preserve their alto and soprano vocal range.
Klangfarbenmelodie
Castrato
Trio
Fermata
35. The frequency of a note determining how high or low it sounds.
Classicism
Pitch
Quintet
Nonet
36. The opening section of a piece of music or movement.
Key signature
Chamber music
Introduction
Voice
37. Arranging a piece of music for an orchestra. Also - the study of music.
Accelerando
Orchestration
Symphony
Courante
38. The period of music history which dates from the mid 1700's to mid 1800's. The music was spare and emotionally reserved - especially when compared to Romantic and Boroque music.
Interval
Octet
Classical
Cadence
39. A musical form where the melody or tune is imitated by individual parts at regular intervals. The individual parts may enter at different measures and pitches. The tune may also be played at different speeds - backwards - or inverted.
Portamento
Conductor
Time Signature
Canon
40. A short or brief sonata.
Flat
Oratorio
Musicology
Sonatina
41. Groups of tones that are harmonious when sounded together as in a chord.
Renaissance
Round
Renaissance
Consonance
42. A person with notable technical skill in the performance of music.
Galliard
Verismo
Virtuoso
Staccato
43. A piece of music written for two vocalists or instrumentalists.
Pastoral
Staccato
Duet
Libretto
44. The seventh note of the scale where there is a strong desire to resolve on the tonic.
Leading note
Carol
Sequence
Virtuoso
45. A musical composition that has a romantic or dreamy character with nocturnal associations.
Major
Treble
Nocturne
Parody
46. Harsh - discordant - and lack of harmony. Also a chord that sounds incomplete until it resolves itself on a harmonious chord.
Slur
Tritone
Dissonance
Opera
47. Creating variation pitch in a note by quickly alternating between notes.
Vibrato
EnharmonicInterval
Soprano
Cavatina
48. Quick repetition of the same note or the rapid alternation between two notes.
Tremolo
Nonet
Whole note
Notation
49. A dirge - hymn - or musical service for the repose of the dead.
Legato
Conductor
Duet
Requiem
50. Ability to determine the pitch of a note as it relates to the notes that precede and follow it.
Capriccio
Relative pitch
Neoclassical
Castrato